Taking Notice, Finally

CLIMATE CHANGE has by now had a noticeable impact on every inch of the Earth, and it is difficult to imagine many people being unaware of it. Most of the human race believes in man made climate change, because most people have experienced it. In my particular neck of the woods, the growing season is much, much longer than it was fifty years ago, when I was a child. Spring now begins in February, and October is rapidly becoming a summer month. It used to snow where I live, middle America, rather frequently, but now, only rarely. Also, the weather has become more violent and dramatically changeable; the rain , when it comes, seems to come in drenching downpours, with relatively few pleasant, mild showers. Large portions of every calendar year in our area is either in a mild drought, or a serious one. The number of truly hot days, with temperatures in the high nineties, is increasing, and winter's are generally milder. Man made climate change has been occurring, to one degree or another, since the dawn of the industrial age, the middle of the eighteenth century when smokestacks began belching greenhouse house gases into the skies of first London, then all other European cities. Soon, surely, billions of people will be so impacted by climate change that our entire species will join hands to fight and reverse it, by taking strong action. Its already too late, later than it should have been. If Al Gore had been elected in 200, for example, the United States might not now be mired in our stupid, needles bickering over and ignoring of climate change. Soon, surely, the last dregs of the conservative community in America will come around, acknowledge reality, and start to help the rest of us, instead of getting in our way. The most recent, up to date report on climate change is frightening, and all new, improved research indicates the the problem is worse than we thought it was. Our grandchildren are going so suffer, long after we're dead. its just a matter ow how much, and how much we do to make their suffering less severe.